Broken Pledge Introduction

Each year for at least the last two decades a fraternity pledge has died in this country. And every year the rinse-and-repeat cycle of freshmen hitting campus and being hazed by their peers goes unchanged. Broken Pledge is the story of how a teenager goes off to college and dies. It exposes the und…

Chapter 1: Brotherhood

Collin Wiant, like many college students, goes off to college looking for a place to belong on campus. But do they really know what they are getting into?

Chapter 2: The Pledge

Lured into a world that's hard to escape, fraternity pledges are sold on brotherhood, status, girls and all that comes with being in an elite fraternity.

Chapter 3: The Downward Spiral

Collin Wiant is accused of sexual assault. His fraternity brothers take action but continue hazing. That triggers a decent that the university nor those closest to Collin saw.

Chapter 4: Regret

All along someone could have stopped Collin's death. Up until his final minutes decisions made by those who swore brotherhood helped cause his demise.

Chapter 5: Code Of Silence

An emergency meeting before the funeral signals a path Collin's Sigma Pi brothers will follow. And a brutal confession leads to a painful secret.

Chapter 6: The Reckoning

In a disciplinary hearing before Ohio University officials, Collin Wiant's brothers make one last stand to save their fraternity.

Chapter 7: Fighting For Collin

It’s been two and a half years since the Wiant family lost their son and brother, but their crusade against hazing has never slowed. They have endured the pandemic, a criminal investigation, court hearings, and the ordeal of trying to pass a new law that would honor Collin and hopefully spare other…

Chapter 8: ‘They killed him’

On the night of March 4, 2021, Stone Foltz was ordered to drink a full bottle of alcohol by his fraternity brothers at Bowling Green State University. The hazing led to the death of Foltz, the second Ohio college to suffer a hazing-related death in about three years. About 10 days after his funeral…

Chapter 9: The Aftermath

In the final episode of Broken Pledge, Shari Foltz and Kathleen Wiant talk with The Dispatch about their aspirations for a hazing-free future. After the loss of their sons Collin and Stone the mothers worked together to keep their promises by pushing lawmakers to pass an anti-hazing law. The new la…